"SSA" 2003 Obituary

SSAINTURENT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-15 published
Professor played a role in defeat of
SSAINTURENT government
By M.J. STONESpecial to The Globe and Mail Friday, August 15,
2003 - Page R5
Nearly four decades after Louis
SSAINTURENT had been Prime Minister
of Canada, McGill professor James
MALLORY was surprised to discover
how influential he had been in the defeat of Mr.
SSAINTURENT's
Liberals in 1957. The revelation occurred in 1992 when the cabinet
papers of the
SSAINTURENT government, which had been sealed for
35 years, were made available to the public.
Unknown to Professor
MALLORY, a radio interview he gave in the
wake of the 1957 election had caught the Prime Minister's ear.
The Liberals had been reduced to 105 seats in the House, seven
fewer than the Conservatives. But the Grits were still in a position
to form a minority government with the aid of the 25 elected
members of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, later to
become the New Democratic Party.
Mr. SSAINTURENT found himself at a crossroads. While his party
was clearly in decline, the Conservatives were on the rise and
many questioned whether the Liberals still had a legal mandate
to govern. When Mr.
SSAINTURENT arrived in cabinet that morning,
Prof. MALLORY's radio interview was still ringing in his ears.
Prof. MALLORY, who died in Montreal on June 24, said in the interview
that if the Liberals continued to govern it would result in a
constitutional crisis. He believed it was the responsibility
of John DIEFENBAKER and the Conservatives to form a government.
The cabinet papers clearly reflect Prof.
MALLORY's influence
over the Prime Minister that morning. Mr.
SSAINTURENT demanded
a copy of the
MALLORY interview and after carefully studying
the radio transcripts, he handed the rule of government over
to the Tories.
Highly regarded as the foremost expert in Canadian legal and
federal structures, Prof.
MALLORY was often called on to advise
governments about constitutional procedures. McGill professor
Charles TAILOR/TAYLOR said another good example occurred in 1979.
"Joe CLARK's
Conservatives had just lost a parliamentary vote,"
Prof. TAILOR/TAYLOR recalled. "The governor-general, Ed
SCHREYER, telephoned
McGill's political science department, looking for Jim. It caused
something of a stir when he couldn't be found immediately.
SCHREYER
was frantic for
MALLORY's advice. The governor-general was unsure
how to proceed.
"Jim was eventually found and consulted. His advice was that
the Conservatives should call an election -- exactly what Joe
CLARK did."
The son of a county sheriff, James Russell
MALLORY was born on
February 5, 1916. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of New Brunswick in 1937 and later studied law at
Edinburgh and Dalhousie universities.
He met his American-born wife, Frances
KELLER, in Scotland, and
the couple married in 1940. They had two sons: James and Charles.
Prof. MALLORY joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan
in 1941. Later, he taught at the University of Toronto and Brandon
College before moving to McGill in 1946.
A respected scholar and lawyer, Prof.
MALLORY was an "old-school"
professor who taught at McGill for 45 years. His reputation as
a constitutional expert was solidified in 1954 when he published
Social Credit and the Federal Power in Canada. The quintessential
text mapped out the constitutional parameters of federal/provincial
relations.
"James MALLORY was a discreet and modest man," McGill professor
Sam NOUMOFF recalled. "He had a profound understanding of morality
and he was incapable of self-promotion. He worked on university
committee after committee while holding many teaching responsibilities.
"Jim wasn't the sort of man who sought public approval, he just
did things because they were the right thing to do."
His son James, who lives in Britain, summed up his father's idealism:
"He had a bloody-minded stubbornness. It would manifest sometimes
in allowing discussions to go on and on. Then he would do exactly
what he intended to do in the first place. Somehow it never impaired
his reputation as a genuine democrat."
Prof. MALLORY was the founder of both the Canadian Studies program
at McGill and the Canadian Association of University Professors.
After retiring in 1982 he was appointed professor emeritus and
continued to teach for another 10 years. In 1964, he was elected
to the Royal Society of Canada and was later awarded the Queen's
Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.
In 1995, McGill founded the James R. Mallory lecture series,
a one-day event that features a special guest who lectures about
Canadian issues. Past guests have included Bob
RAE,
PeterWHITE/WHYTE
and Phyllis
LAMBERT.
The organizers of the event say that this
year's lecture will focus on Prof.
MALLORY's legacy.
Prof. MALLORY died 11 weeks after the death of his wife on what
would have been their 63rd anniversary.

SSAINTURENT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-13 published
DiedThisDay -- Paul Joseph James
MARTIN, 1992
Saturday, September 13, 2003 - Page F11
Politician and statesman born on June 23, 1903, at Ottawa; 1935,
first elected to House of Commons; 1943 appointed parliamentary
assistant to minister of labour; 1945, entered cabinet as secretary
of state; 1946, became minister of national health and welfare
forced prime minister
SSAINTURENT to accept national health insurance
1963, appointed secretary of state for external affairs; 1968-74,
served as government leader in Senate; 1975-79, served as high
commissioner to Britain; made three failed attempts at Liberal
Party leadership (in 1968, lost to Pierre
TRUDEAU;) died at Windsor,
Ontario; two-volume memoirs, A Very Public Life, published in
1983 and 1986.

SSAINTURENT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-20 published
JohnEdwardBurns (Ted)
HOWELL
By Frank GARDINERThursday,November 20, 2003 - Page A26
Father, husband, Sunday School teacher, fisherman, sports enthusiast,
Crown Attorney. Born June 26, 1934, in Goderich, Ontario Died
August 11, in Omemee, Ontario, of cancer, age 69.
Ted HOWELL, through all of his life, was a little man with a
big heart and a giant intellect.
During his early years growing up in Goderich, Ted displayed
an early love of academic excellence mixed with a fun sense of
competitiveness in all endeavours from table tennis and hockey,
to debating contests sponsored by the local Lion's Club.
As part of his 1950 high-school election campaign for treasurer,
Ted and his loyal cohorts dressed up as members of the Mafia.
Ted in his zoot suit, trench coat and oversized fedora imitated
a smaller version of Chicago gangster Al Capone with a campaign
slogan: "Vote for me. I need the money." Ted won.
Ted loved a physical challenge. Few could beat him at his favourite
sport of table tennis. Many fell prey to his quick eye and cunning
strategies and years later Ted won several table tennis championships
with the Scarborough Kings Table Tennis Club.
Another field of Ted's early expertise was lawn croquet. On the
large lawn of their home, the
HOWELL family had a grand lawn
croquet court. Ted, as usual, took this game very seriously and
had little patience with anyone who did not do the same. Ted
was an expert at the double-ball knock out.
These traits also made him a memorable boys' Sunday School teacher
at North Street United Church where he creatively handled --
some might say "civilized" -- some lads bigger than himself,
all tough, key members of the "Church Street gang." With his
leadership, he earned their life-long respect.
Ted graduated at the top of his high-school class and went off
to University of Toronto and then on to Osgoode Law School where
he earned an award for outstanding contribution to school life.
He was called to the bar in 1960.
Jack BATTEN's book titled Lawyers quotes Ted: 'But from the
time I started reading Erle Stanley Gardner as a kid, around
grade seven, I wanted to be a courtroom lawyer.'
HOWELL won a
public speaking award in high school, and an essay he wrote about
Canada's role in the United Nations took him on an all-expenses-paid
weekend to Ottawa, where he proudly shook hands with Prime Minister
Louis SSAINTURENT.
HOWELL was a diligent student and he was headed
for law.
"Ted HOWELL is, in almost every respect, a perfect servant of
the Crown. He is an admirably correct man. There is no stuffiness
in his make-up but he sends out the message that he values propriety
and turns off at bad manners. He conducts himself according to
such old verities."
Visiting a summer camp, Ted met the woman who was to become his
wife and soul-mate for 40 special years. Ted and Theresa
(TIFF)
were married in 1963. This was Ted's greatest project and he
is the proud father of Thomas (and his wife
AndreaMETRICK) and
Michael.Ted was the grandfather of Ashley
HOWELL.
Ted HOWELL's many legal accomplishments and Friendships over
40 years embraced eminent legal associates and Friends as well
as Goderich pals. He was a proud Goderich character. He was a
long-time resident of Scarborough, Ontario, as well as his family's
cottage and country home in Omemee, Ontario
Ted is missed and remembered.
Frank GARDINER is a one-time Sunday school pupil of Ted
HOWELL.

SSAINTURENT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-10 published
FULTON quietly kept the Canadian Football League in running order
By Stephen
BRUNT,
Wednesday,December 10, 2003 - Page S8
Less than a month back, during Grey Cup week, Greg
FULTON picked
up his phone to answer a few questions from a reporter.
Frail health had kept him from making the trip to Regina, but
in conversation he was sharp as a tack and again proved himself
to be a one-man encyclopedia of Canadian football history.
Paul MARTIN, the prime minister to be, was going to make a much
publicized pregame appearance at Taylor Field, fresh from the
Liberal leadership convention.
Aside from Pierre
TRUDEAU,
FULTON was asked, did he remember
any other prime minister taking the time to attend the Grey Cup?
"Well," he said, "I don't remember Mackenzie
KING being there.
Or Louis SSAINTURENT."
Of course, he knew because he was there. It seemed he was always
there -- a player beginning in Winnipeg in 1939, a statistician
and treasurer for the Calgary Stampeders from 1950 to 1966, a
fixture in the Canadian Football League office from 1967 on,
and, finally in his last job, the Canadian Football League's
honorary secretary and official historian, a title surely unique
in all of pro sports.
The National Football League still has a few owners with connections
to the game's early days, and in hockey and baseball there are
at least a handful of sportswriting elders who still remember
when. But only the Canadian Football League actually employed
someone who had an inside view extending back more than 60 years.
Considering how tumultuous some of those seasons have been and
considering the game's highs and lows and the cast of strange
and wonderful characters who came and went, what a tale
FULTON
could tell.
He was 84 when he died on Monday, and with him, sadly, is lost
much of the anecdotal story of the league. (Commissioner Tom
WRIGHT, who during his relatively short term on the job had come
to appreciate
FULTON's special role, planned to have
FULTON's
memories committed to tape and transcribed. Sadly, that didn't
happen before
FULTON fell ill.)
FULTON's tenure with the league office was perhaps the only significant
legacy of Keith
DAVEY's 54-day reign as commissioner in 1967.
Davey lured
FULTON to Toronto from Calgary to act as the league's
treasurer. When Jake
GAUDAUR took over from
DAVEY, he decided
to keep FULTON on.
"It would be the most important decision I would make,"
GAUDAUR
says now, which, given the events of his 16 years in office,
is quite a statement. Every subsequent commissioner -- and there
have been a bunch -- endorsed and echoed that original decision.
Not that anyone on the outside would really understand. "All
of those beneficial things he did for the league were all out
of public view,"
GAUDAUR said. "He never received any sort of
media credit, nor did he want any. Clearly, it was a labour of
love for him. That's kind of corny to say that, but I really
believe it was."
In those early days, the league was a two-man, two-secretary
operation.
FULTON, an accountant by profession, kept the books,
kept an eye on club finances and kept the minutes during league
meetings -- all during a period when the game grew into a multimillion-dollar
sports business. He was also charged with producing the schedule
every year, a trickier proposition than it might seem, given
the uneven number of teams, the east-west split and the importance
of certain dates in certain places.
At one point,
GAUDAUR remembers, they turned the task over to
a computer. And then, after the computer coughed out its work,
they handed it to
FULTON, who fixed it. "He had what I consider
to be a computer mind,"
GAUDAUR said. "It was an incredible mind."
The Canadian Football League took a turn for the worse after
GAUDAUR left the post. Commissioners came and went, the league
at times teetered on the brink of insolvency, the disastrous
U.S. expansion played itself out and the owners at times resembled
a bag of mixed nuts.
But there was always
FULTON, quietly keeping things in running
order, breaking the tension with his wry, quiet sense of humour,
loyal first and foremost to the game he loved.
"He was a remarkable person,"
GAUDAUR said. "It really was a
pleasure to be around the guy."
Several generations of those who spent time in the Canadian Football
League orbit share those sentiments and mourn the loss.